Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai

Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai investigates themes such as belonging, origin and dislocation, wherebyshe questions the standard definitions of cultural and sexual identity.
For Another World she inhabited different female identities in Berlin – from young women in her local neighbourhood, to online dating profiles where she documented the reactions to her ‘foreign’ ego. She assumed these different identities to analyze her own feelings toward and experiences of a migrant existence from a distanced perspective.